Sharadha director remanded in police custody

While it took the collapse of the Sharadha group to bring the plight of journalism under focus, tainted money and dubious motive have been running scores of news organisations. Such owners and investors make unethical demands of journalists and find ...

Instances like Sharadha's Ponzi scheme can never be entirely eliminated. But greater financial awareness and financial literacy, combined with severe deterrent punishment of the guilty could go far to make them less frequent. Starting from the tulip ...

A day after the chairman of Saradha Group Sudipta Sen, along with Jharkhand head of the chit fund company Arvind [...]

A recent order by the (AICTE), prohibiting engineering colleges from offering science courses, has led to much dissent among private institutions, many of whom have offered such courses for over a decade. Courses such as applied physics, chemistry, ...

I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession. I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first, said former US President Ronald Reagan justifying that politics is after all a dirty game. If survival in the dirty ...

A mega chit fund scam in the neighbouring West Bengal has its impact on Odisha with the crime branch of the state police registering criminal cases against Saradha group, the controversial company which is currently at the centre of the multi crore duping ...

While anti-incumbency haunts the ruling BJP, dissidence and groupism are posing problems for the Congress in Uttara Kannada district. It looks like the JD(S) is in a better position than the BJP and Congress and may give stiff competition to the two ...

The jury is still out on the merits of unified regulation One of the most unfortunate (and dangerous) fallouts of the Sharadha group scam is the nave belief that there is a law that can kill Ponzi schemes once and for all! This is somewhat like ...

Special session of state legislative assembly called to meet at special session Kolkata: The West Bengal government will convene a special session of the state legislative assembly starting April 29, to pass a new law to protect small investors from ...